![]() ![]() The sportswriter made his first trip back to South Korea since his adoption to cover the Korean women’s team at the Olympics. The author, himself an adopted Korean who grew up in New Jersey, provides intimate details and a sympathetic tone. Seth Berkman expertly weaves these details and histories of the players into a captivating tale that documents disparate player histories, backgrounds and races that culminated in the historic melding of players from North and South Korea into a unified team that captured global attention as dignitaries from the north and south attended the games. Her sister, Hannah Brandt, played for the U.S. The team’s captain, Marissa Brandt (Park Yoon-jung), who was born in South Korea, was adopted and grew up in Vadnais Heights and played at Gustavus Adolphus College. ![]() The coach, Sarah Murray, was born in Faribault, and played for the University of Minnesota Duluth. Minnesota has a long history of involvement with the Olympic Games, particularly the Winter Olympics, and it was on display in an unconventional fashion with the historic Korean women’s hockey team in the 2018 Games in Seoul. A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic Historyīy Seth Berkman. ![]()
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![]() What is freshest here is Le Clezio's linkage of North American and Mesoamerican Indian religious beliefs. Like them, Le Clezio is particularly enchanted with the ``sacred horror'' and ``terrifying beauty'' of pre-Columbian myth and magic and their ritual identification with death. French novelist and pre-Columbian scholar Le Clezio's interest in these ancient civilizations is purely literary, in accord with the romantic French attachment to the lost world of ancient America that fascinated Guillaume Apollinaire and the Surrealists Antonin Artaud and Georges Bataille. ![]() This examination of ancient Mesoamerican religion and myth is based on 16th-century chroniclers' accounts of Aztec and Maya myths and covers familiar ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() This box was full of Thisby-themed items lovingly created by many gifted artists, and after checking out their shops, I have plenty of new ideas for Christmas presents. I’m planning to start a reread with my new collector’s edition copy in the next few days. It was the first of Maggie Stiefvater’s books I read, and when I finished it, I immediately started picking up everything else she had published so far. It’s been almost 10 years since I read this one, but I still remember what an impact it made on me. I was excited when they announced a 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Box of The Scorpio Races. ![]() They do a great job filling their boxes with bookish items to match their books. I don’t have a subscription for OwlCrate, but I like to keep an eye out for special boxes to pick up or specific bookish items in their shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() The point, in case you’ve missed it, is that Girls Can Do Anything. The plot has been junked up with a dumb framing device, hinted at in the earlier movie, that makes Alice the captain of her late father’s ship: In the opening sequence, she bravely guides the vessel through pirate-ridden seas. ![]() Mia Wasikowska returns as Alice, only in the movie’s vision, it’s not enough for her to simply slip into the looking-glass universe for some wild adventures. Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There was first published in December 1871 (dated 1872). The actors may as well have been zombified and then airlifted onto the set, they appear to have so little interest in being there. The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day. James Bobin’s Alice Through the Looking Glass-a sequel to Tim Burton’s mad, cluttered 2010 Alice in Wonderland, featuring much of the same cast-feels like a movie made by committee, a picture with no rhyme, no reason and no real reason for existing other than to cash in on its predecessor’s popularity. One thing leads to another, and Alice finds herself in the Looking-glass. As she half talks to herself and half sleeps, Alice imagines going into the Looking-glass House behind the mirror surrounding the fireplace. Alice gently scoops up a black kitten and scolds it for poor manners. Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is one of the trippiest children’s books ever written, a squiggly bit of tomfoolery made by a highly imaginative individual. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll, and the sequel to Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The novel opens with Alices cat, Dinah, grooming her kittens. ![]() |